Library Automation Systems

and Vendors on the WWW

Library Systems / Software

Acumen & Scope e-Library
(formerly F.I.L.M.S) is a comprehensive library management system
that scales easily from small educational libraries to very large
public libraries. Available from Functional
Solutions (Vendor) it is WEB based Library Automation software
– z39.50 compliant, RFID enabled.

ALEPH Integrated
Library System produced by Ex Libris Ltd. ALEPH is Flexible
No matter the size or specialty of your library, ALEPH can be tailored
to meet your unique needs.

ALICE Library
Automation Software - known as ALICE in Europe and Australia, ANNIE
in America, EMBLA in Iceland, OASIS elsewhere. Particularly
strong in School libraries but have other markets. Vendor
is Softlink (Australia)

Amicus
Client server Library Automation System (marketed by Elias) developed
according to the specifications of the Canadian National Library.
It was designed to become a modern replacement product for their
DOBIS system.

Aurora Library systems
from Aurora Information Technology.
(Vendor) Has dynamic range of products designed to control the digital
and hybrid libraries required by the Information Age. Aurora Systems
are designed to provide the maximum flexibility to libraries through
application of prevailing standards, and the use of rapid development
techniques to ensure appropriate solutions.

BlissLib Automated
Library System is suitable for small corporate, school, or personal
collections of just about any type of material.

Bookmark - School
Library automation system. BOOK MARK is used by over 1,200 schools
in Australia and is also used in schools and institutions in Papua
New Guinea, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Latvia, The Ukraine, Vanuatu,
Malaysia, and the Marshall Islands.

BuCAT - A library
software system developed by TKM in Manitoba for installation on
VAX computers.

CARL.Solution
from TLC Carl
is a library automation and management system for large libraries
and consortia. Also known in past as Knight-Ridder's CARL.

Data*Library
- Designed for small to medium sized public and special libraries,
Data*Library is a fully integrated Library Management System offering
full bibliographic control, circulation, OPAC and more.(Vendor is
Altarama)

MAELISA is is an integrated
Library system based on a 32-bit client/server architecture that
runs on Windows operating system. It is a user-friendly software
package for academic, special, medical and research libraries and
information centers. Marketed by Library Associates Inc.(Korea),
is an affiliate of Kyung IL Technology, Inc. with Korean and Philippine
based clients.

ResourceMate(r) 2.0
is Windows 3.1/95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP Resource Library Software designed
for Church Libraries, Clergy, Synagogue Libraries, Professionals,
Corporations and Private Schools. It features full cataloging, searching
and circulating beginning at $149.99 through to $299.99.

Spydus - Automated Library System
from Civica Pty Limited
(Vendor)is in its third generation. Spydus is a functionally rich,
web-centric application built around open systems concepts.

VUBIS - Library system
developed by the Free University of Brussels based on M-technology

Vendors

ALS - (British Vendor) A British
libray automation company with offices in Germany, France, the Netherlands
and Portugal

Altarama - (Australian
Vendor and Distributor.) Altarama Systems & Services focuses
on the development, supply, and support of software, products and
services that improve information management in libraries, with
a special focus on the needs of reference librarians.
Solutions include:-

RefTracker – a request
management system specifically designed for the needs of libraries,
especially the reference desk

Library Specific Hardware that has been tested to work in
the library environment.

Services to complement these library systems and products,
and general project and business management consulting.

Impact/SLiMS -
"The Impact Small Library Management System is a fully integrated,
easy-to-use, and inexpensive way for smaller libraries to automate
key operations. Impact/SLiMS is specifically designed for libraries
with less than 250,000 titles, including users of IMPACT CD-ROM
public access catalog system."

Best-Seller Inc.(Vendor)
Best-Seller Library Automation System - Ideal for public,
special and academic libraries with mature and complex needs

BLCMP - (UK Vendor) A major
UK supplier of library systems to academic and public libraries

Talis,
-is BLCMP's flagship product, a Unix library management system.
Talis is built on the earlier success of the BLCMP Library System
(BLS) and its close integration with the unique BLCMP Database
which now has over 15 million MARC records available online.

Talis
Web graphical interface for putting catalogue on the World
Wide Web with some example Catalogues on the WWW

AMICUS
system - Unixed based client server library system now marketed
by Elias developed according to the specifications of the Canadian
National Library. It was designed to become a modern replacement
product for their DOBIS system.

Stowe
Book Plus is now owned by Geac. Library System developed
in Australia.

InfoVision Technology
- (Australian Vendor) specialises in providing leading edge library
management and document management solutions for a wide range of
organisations based on client server technology. These systems include:

Amlib Library Management System

AUS Info Total Information System

Data*Library Library Management

ZGateway Web Based Z39.50 Client

Kinetica Upload

Products that were previously handled by Altarama Systems Pty Ltd,
are now available from, and fully supported by InfoVision Technology.
For information about Data*Library, ZGateway and Kinetica upload
see the InfoVision web site.

Library Associates Inc.(Korea),
is an affiliate of Kyung IL Technology, Inc. They market the MAELISA
integrated Library system which is based on a 32-bit client/server
architecture that runs on Windows operating system. It is a user-friendly
software package for academic, special, medical and research libraries
and information centers. Korean and Philippine based clients.

Lex Systems: (Vendor) Offering
"Lexifile" automation software which is billed as simple and easy
to learn.

PICA - (Vendor) A non-profit
organisation providing systems and services for the majority of
Dutch academic and public libraries and for a number of library
networks in Germany

Q-Ray (Vendor)
is a Dutch company which supplies the Library Management System
OLIB7 based on Oracle. Q-Ray is OLIB7 distributor in The Netherlands
and Belgium.

Softlink - (Vendor)
Library Automation Software - known as ALICE in Europe and Australia,
ANNIE in America, EMBLA in Iceland, OASIS elsewhere. Particularly
strong in School libraries but have other markets.

Stowe Book
Plus - (Vendor) From Stowe Australia. Australian Library
package sold internationally. Now owned by Geac

VTLS Inc. - produce
solutions for managing library collections and creating digital
libraries. Customers include academic, public, corporate, and special
libraries and museums in the United States, Canada and over 30 other
countries

Other Vendors

Tech Logic - Automated
Chek in and Check Out Solutions - Tech Logic book return systems
delicately moves books from the drop-off slot to bins that automatically
adjust the level of books so no one needs to ever bend down again.
Better yet, a system can be installed that automatically sorts books
and places them on carts ready to be brought to the shelves, with
no human sorting required!

Internet and network savvy solution designed to take advantage
of library investments in network access and Web sites Multi-vendor
in nature:

Does not require libraries to use a common automation
vendor in order to do automated resource sharing.

Copernic.com - Great searching software.
Their business solutions that interest libraries the most. are:
Copernic Aggregator, Copernic Summarizer Server, Copernic 2001 Server
and Copernic Indexer. For example the Copernic Aggregator is a powerful
enterprise data aggregation platform that creates a single access
point to the right information using internal and external
information sources and databases. Their products would be of interest
to most knowledge workers.

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above list (especially automated library systems).